A mother and wife is found shot to death in her car On a cold January day in 1994, the life of 28-year-old Caucasian Kimberly Evans was cut tragically short. A wife and mother from Sandy, Utah, her world had been turned upside down just months earlier by the death of her two-year-old daughter. Friends and family say she fell into a depression and began using cocaine, though in the weeks leading up to her death, she was reportedly trying to turn her life around.
On the morning of January 15, 1994, Kimberly told her husband she was going to
help a friend move. She was seen later that afternoon at a gas station in West Jordan. Hours later, her body was discovered in her Jeep Grand Cherokee at the mouth of Butterfield Canyon in Herriman. She had been shot multiple times in what investigators believed was a planned meeting that turned fatal.
The investigation into Kimberly's murder has remained active for years, yet no arrests have been made, leaving a cloud of suspicion and unanswered questions. Early in the investigation, detectives focused on a Salt Lake County man who was rumored to have supplied Kimberly with drugs and taken nude photographs of her. A search warrant was served, and gunpowder residue tests were performed on this individual, but the results did not lead to an arrest.
Another avenue of investigation involved Kimberly's husband, Mark B. Evans. He was interviewed by police shortly after his wife's murder but has since refused further cooperation. While detectives have expressed a desire to speak with him again, potentially to eliminate him as a suspect, he has not responded to their requests. Investigators also explored a possible link to another murder suspect, Michael DeCorso, but ballistics tests did not match his weapons to the bullets that killed Kimberly. The case grew cold over the years, leaving Kimberly's family with a profound sense of loss and an ache for justice that has yet to be fulfilled.
